The Poster Art of Henryk Tomaszewski in the Years 1949-1955

Abstract

The article is an attempt to summarize the Henryk Tomaszewski’s (1914-2005) poster art in the period of the social-realism doctrine domination. The artist belongs to so called “Polish Poster School”; he created nearly 50 poster projects between 1949-1955. What draws attention is his unique method of shaping posters’ surface with the usage of painting techniques, and his interest in typography.

Those features are also typical for his political posters from that period, which distinguish him among others as an artist with a distance to the social-realism doctrine.